Bug 6576

Summary: Local server detection for disabling proxy in send-error-report does not work
Product: [Yocto Project Subprojects] Error Reporting tool Reporter: Paul Eggleton <bluelightning>
Component: Error Reporting ToolAssignee: Roxana Ciobanu <roxana.ciobanu>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: Medium    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: 1.7   
Hardware: All   
OS: Multiple   
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Verified: Documentation change: No (bug/feature does not impact docs)

Description Paul Eggleton 2014-07-25 15:13:45 UTC 
If HTTP_PROXY or http_proxy is set when the send-error-report script is run, it will check to see if fetching / on the specified server returns 200 without the proxy set. If it does it will assume that the proxy is not needed (e.g. because the server is a local instance, which is often the case when doing development on the error reporting server itself). However this check can never work because fetching / always redirects to /Errors/ in the current code and thus returns code 301. We probably need to try fetching /Errors/ instead.